Southern timber harvesting equipment and on-road vehicle costs were obtained for the years from 1967 to 1984. Average cost trends for equipment and vehicles were determined for the period. Average logging contract rates and price trends were also estimated. Comparisons indicated that equipment costs increased more than the general inflation rate and less than the prices of other industrial comm...

Guilan Province is the biggest hazelnut producer in Iran. Over 70% of hazelnut production cost is due to its manual harvesting. Therefore, study on all aspects of its cultivation mechanization is necessary to sustain its production. This study focused on identifying factors that affect the development of hazelnut harvesting mechanization in Guilan Province, Iran, using a three-round Delphi tech...

New panel data from India are used to examine the relationship between farm size and productivity based on a model incorporating agency costs favoring family workers, scaledependent returns to mechanization arising from the fact that a larger contiguous land area is better-suited for high-capacity machinery, and falling credit costs with owned land. The model provides guidance for imputing the ...

Interest in the development of stripper headers is growing owing to the excessive losses of combine harvesters and costs of manually harvesting for chickpeas. The design of a new concept can enhance the mechanized process for chickpea harvesting. A modified stripper platform was designed, in which passive fingers with V-shape slots remove the pods from the anchored plant. The floating platform ...

Abstract The subject of this study was to evaluate the visible crop losses during mechanized harvesting grapes, assess impacts changes in machine parameters and thus look for possibility reducing when utilizing method harvesting. A comparison with amount arising from manual also monitored. research results indicated average total 1.10–5.62% harvested monitoring revealed occurring area columns s...

Rapid and timely acquisition of the crushing rate can help in assessing performance combine harvesters, which is very important for agricultural production. The spectral reflectance soybean provides an alternative method to classical physical chemical analysis laboratory. Therefore, hyperspectral imaging be used rapidly obtain soybean. In this study, was employed, application inter-correlation ...